Black Rose Thorn
Shi_Musouka
If you have any art books(like HTDM or some other anatomy-related book) that can help you improve on your sense of proportion or anatomy, you can do the same exercises the nurses have been assignning you from tutorials and you can try and find books around where you can make your own assignments and use both books and tutorials as an aid.
This stuff below can be useful for people with art books such as the HTDM series or some other kind of art book to follow. This can also be used with a tutorial if enough info in the tutorial is provided
I dont have any drawing books, and at the moment I'm not sure if I should get any. I've been told not to get books by Katey Coope or Christ Harp but at the same time I was warned not to purchase any 'How to draw Manga' books either. All I have are these tutorials. But if you can recommend some good books at a good price, and tell me where I can find them then I'll definitely look into it
3nodding
Black Rose Thorn
Shi_Musouka
im signing on for now... if i seem out of it, its probably because im kinda struggling through some personal issues(my friend died yesterday
crying )
but I'll do my best... I'll be here until I have to attend her memorial at school tonight. *waits for a client*
I'm so sorry to hear that. My dad is going through the same thing right now (his only friend died Saturday after he and his wife celebrated their 16th anniversary)
I do hope you get through this, its gonna take some time to get over this but you'll be alright, I promise.
Oh, and thanks for the support. It really means a lot to me...
Your welcome. Take care ok.
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It'll pretty much work for any book. The only book I've recommended so far are the books written by Andrew Loomis, but they're out of print so the only way to read them is through saveloomis.org or fineart.sk.
I don't really have a lot of reading recommendations at the moment yet. I heard the Burne Hogarth art books are really popular, though I can't say for sure because I've only flipped through one of his books(pictures seemed interesting) and I was confused as hell, probably because I didn't have time to read the text...
So I think you should stick to tutorials for now until your mind is ready to handle a complex book... I've read through a few HTDM books when I was a newbie artist and my mind went crazy after the first few pages and it still does it now so I always try to take in the material slowly@_@... During my first month of drawing(3 years ago), an artist recommended Figure Drawing For All It's Worth from saveloomis.org to me. I went there and I was like "WHOA!!! O_O! WTF IS THIS?". I glanced through the first few pages and it was all just blahblahblah and I found it boring as hell so I stopped reading it until another artist recommended Fun With A Pencil from saveloomis.org. I gave it a try. I still did the "WHOA@_@!!!" thing when looking at it, but the guidelines and shapes were beyond amazing. That's when I started trying to make my characters look more realistic. When I went back to the Figure Drawing book, I still did the "WHOA@_@!!!" and I didn't bother to read it because back then, I found reading pages worth of text boring until now. It really helped my art a lot after reading and comprehending the text. All of the nurses recommended saveloomis.org to me. Still did the "WHOA@_@!!!" but stopped after taking in all the material slowly. I'm still on the first chapter and I don't plan on continuing until I've mastered each page/chapter.
Chris Hart's stuff can be good if you purchase the right books. His manga and anime ones may not be as popular, but most of his concepts with anatomy have amazed me. His books on cartooning and comics are pretty impressive...
A year ago while I was still working on improving my art, someone suggested me to buy a book Chris Hart wrote called Human Anatomy Made Amazingly Easy. It teaches you about the structure underneath the human body(muscles and bones) that causes the form of the human body to be the way it is and it's a lot easier for beginners to understand because it's really simple for an anatomy book. Since the book was designed more for assisting comic artists, this can be helpful if you pay enough attention... If you're having a lot of trouble drawing males and putting life into your poses/making them more believeable and realistic, this would be a good book to take a look at, but remember it's only useful IF you also pay attention to the text... remeber how I'd be all like "WHOA@_@!!!" when I see endless boring pages of text? Well it doesn't have as much of it because most of it was images and reading the text helped me see what's going on...
To be honest, I don't find any of Katy Coope's or Chris Hart's books to be crap becayse Katy's book was designed for beginners and that book was the reason I took up anime drawing. It wasn't until that evil bro of mine hid the book from me that I started researching anime-drawing art techniques online. Chris's book wasn't as detailed compared to all the other art books I've read, but what both Katy Coope's book and Chris Hart's anime book had in common was that it posed some really interesting ideas for me to think about whenever I draw. Sure it's not material that will make you an instant artist, then again the magical tutorial doesn't exist. We can only provide you with the training wheels to get you started. Where you take your bicycle and which path to take is up to you.
